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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

Topics

Window Writing Face Look Wall Way

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

Joe Scarborough

Politics Direction Country Always

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

Life Words You Things Show Bringing

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Father Best Death Friends Daddy

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

Smiling Tattoo Two Clown Get Would

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Stephane Mallarme

Work Words Hands Over Pure Poet

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

Rosemary Mahoney

Fool You Perfect Nobody Try Pretend

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

Weakness New Know Hard Stuff

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.

Goals Me Feel Back Born Never

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Jean de la Bruyere

Life Happiness Grief Loved Person

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Music Sad Me Powerful Solidarity

I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential.

Team Game Potential I Can Mature

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

Me Chicago Old Grounds

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